David,
those, who you call Rhuthenians, call themselves Ukrainians.
Alex
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> Von: David Weiner <dweiner_at_xs4all.nl>
> An: czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
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> Gesendet: 21:32 Mittwoch, 12.August 2015
> Betreff: Re: [Cz-L] Being Rumanian
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> Of course there were people that spoke what we called "kigel deutsch"
> but I had to speak correc DEutsch.
> My mother has studied in Wien Germanistik and she was correcting me the
> whole time. I remember specially tha when I wanted to pass somewhere I
> said "Ich wil durchgehen durch der strasse" an she wil correct me
> saying
> " Ein Dieb geht durch du passierst".
> She tought me to read the Gothic print and even to write the Gothic letters.
> About the Ukrainian: We had only Rhutenians not Ukrainians and
> Rhutenisch was one of the official languages in Austria.
> David
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> Anny Matar schreef op 8/12/2015 om 12:25 PM:
>> --001a11c2ff1c8abc2c051d1aa2ed
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>> Hardy, our language was simply ours, some spoke it the way you described,
>> others spoke it differently - we used Umlaute - so did that make my
>> language different? I don't know about grammer, but whatever it was it
> was
>> ours.
>> About the Romanian or Ukrainian passports, everyone to his own. I don't
> now
>> why its helpful but my children and grandchildren study in Israel, they
>> would have to learn those languages to follow their lecturers which, I
>> think is very difficult, because even those of us who have spoken a
>> "perfect" Ukrainian - not that learned from their servants - or
> Romanian
>> could barely understand the slang used today. I barely understand it on TV.
>> Anyway good luck to them.
>> [Anny Matar]
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